Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Related communities:
Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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The problem is monetization. YouTube is brilliant in that people work their asses off to produce content for it with the hope that some day they will be able to make money off it, so that effectively a bunch of people end up working for YouTube for free. Even if they don't make meaningful money yet they're not going to shift platforms to somewhere where monetization is simply not going to happen.
The only solution I could think of is to suggest setting up a patreon or liberapay or something, and to start uploading videos there if certain funding goals are met. Offer them an alternative to making money off ads.
@cabbage @cecilkorik @brianpeiris There's an initiative in the works to try and answer these questions, forming a co-operative structure dedicated to hosting video platform(s) in a way that can support the needs of creators, viewers and supporters. Focused on Canadian content but hoping to create a widely replicable model. It's polling for names and other feedback right now, have your say:
https://atomicpoet.org/notice/B0eL2wd3n3aWsnL756
Cool what about the bandwidth? Even a federated solution for video would be hard if it becomes popular.
That's something about Peertube. It works on torrenting technology if I understand correctly, could I help my instance by constantly seeding my own videos? Even if Imnot hosting my own instance, could I help shoulder the load?